Are You Happy? (The Habits Of Happiness)

In an analogy, happiness would be like a piece of veneer furniture from Walmart, but joy would be more like a solid oak piece of wood from a real established furniture store. The choice is yours, happiness or joy? Pleasure is fleeting like the wind, yet joy in your heart. ~ Bill Greguska

Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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It would be a lie if I said that every moment, of every day of my life, I was full of happiness. Although I can tell you that my life has direction and purpose because of my relationship with God.

To find happiness in your heart, you need first to define what real happiness is, and know where to go to find it?

Pastor Stuart Briscoe from Elmbrook Church has a tongue-twisting, yet so very true definition of happiness, that goes like this:

“Many people feel that their happiness is directly related to their happenings. If their happenings happen to happen, the way they happen, to want their happenings to happen, they are happy. But if their happens don’t happen to happen the way they happen to want their happenings to happen, they are unhappy!” ~ Pastor Stuart Briscoe

If this describes you at all, you can now choose to find your true happiness and encouragement from following the example and teaching ofJesus Christ.

Just to let you know my life has changed because of my relationship with God through His Son. I am still growing, and I’m not quite where I want to be yet, but I’m sure NOT where it used to be! We areall works in progress.

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Happy people… keep connected with their families, friends, fellow church members, and others. The bonds that happy people make increase their happiness and contentment in life. On the other hand, those who do not keep close friendships tend to experience things like depression, and other mental health issues

Happy people… set Physical, Spiritual, Social as well as Emotional goals. Taking care of one’s body, mind and soul are so very critical to experiencing happiness. Happy people take care of their mind and body and manage their stress. Focusing on your own personal health doesn’t just mean exercising. Happy people actually behave like happy people.

Happy people… smile, are warm towards others and invest energy and enthusiasm to most everything they do. Praying and meditating on God’s word is very important and often overlooked, not to forget to mention practicing acts of kindness and brotherly love which can make a big difference in the happiness you will or will not experience.

Happy people… have gratitude for who and what they have in their life, and also for the things you do not have can be two extremely important factors when you are striving to be happy. Take a moment right now and write down at least 5-10 things you are grateful for. This is good to do every day, you do not always have to write them down, but at least thinking about them or saying them out loud to a friend.

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Happy people… typically do not have pity parties or overly complain about things. They keep themselves positive by realizing that there are two things in life to think about, “Don’t sweat the small stuff, and the second thing is that everything is small stuff in the light of eternity. They know when to let go and turn the page on certain things. Happy people typically don’t lose sleep over things because they practice self-control.

Happy people… help others by volunteering their time, they have a healthy perspective about how much contentment material possessions offer to their life. Also, happy people can deal with stressful life situations because they have developed successful coping strategies. In addition, happy people also try to focus on the needs of other people and engage others in talking about themselves.

The Formula To Find Happiness

Do Your Happenings, Determine How Happy Are You Happy Are?

To find happiness, a person needs first to define what happiness is? I would like to offer you a strong suggestion that to find real happiness; you need to have a basic understanding of who God is, and what his plan for you is. Here is a list of 25 things to ask yourself when trying to figure out what is happiness: